The next hall is devoted to the Mexica, aka Aztecs. The halls that follow display the fine legacy of civilizations from Oaxaca and the Gulf of Mexico, including two stone Olmec head carvings weighing in at almost 20 tonnes.
If you rush through the Maya exhibits from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras, be sure not to miss the breathtaking full-scale replica of the tomb of King Pakal, discovered deep in the Templo de las Inscripciones at Palenque.
The Oaxaca and Maya rooms are also very impressive. Several of the rooms have recreations of archeological scenes: murals in the Teotihuacan exhibit and tombs in the Oaxaca and Maya rooms. This gives the chance to see the pieces in the context in which they were found. The museum is built around a large courtyard, which is a nice place to sit when you want to take a break.
The museum is big and the collection is extensive, so be sure to set aside enough time to do it justice. Home Museums National Museum of Anthropology. Rating No reviews yet. Translate to English. The collection of the National Museum of Anthropology is made up of numerous archeological and ethnographic pieces from all over Mexico. Some of the most emblematic pieces of the collection Sunstone, which is the heart of the museum itself, the monumental teotihuacanas sculptures dedicated to the gods of water is counted, the treasure of the tomb of King Pakal and an Atlantean Toltec brought from Tollan-Xicocotitlan and the Monolith of Tlaloc that guarded the entrance to the museum.
The MNA is one of the main tourist attractions in Mexico. It attracts more than two million visitors annually. The permanent exhibitions on the ground floor cover all pre-Columbian civilizations located on the current territory of Mexico as well as in former Mexican territory in what is today the southwestern United States. The permanent expositions at the first floor show the culture of Native American population of Mexico since the Spanish colonization.
The National Museum of Anthropology MNA has 24 exhibition halls, of which 23 are permanent and one is destined for temporary exhibitions, which are sometimes museographic samples from various museums in the world.
Access to the latter is separate from the rest of the museum. The permanent rooms are distributed on both floors of the building. In the ground floor are located the rooms dedicated to the introduction to the anthropology and the cultures of the Mexican territory, from the Population of America to the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.
At the second level are the 11 ethnography rooms, where exhibit samples of the material culture of indigenous peoples living in Mexico today. The rooms of anthropology and archeology are arranged around the uncovered part of the central courtyard, which is where the pond of lilies, and are arranged according to a chronological criterion starting from the right side until arriving at the room Mexica.
From the room of the cultures of Oaxaca, the order of presentation is geographical. The first room of the MNA corresponds to an introduction to the activity of anthropology.
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